The Birder

83

85 minutes – Comedy
Language: English
Festival release date: March 21, 2014, Canadian Film Fest, Toronto
Release date:
Canadian distributor: Dot Films

High school teacher Ron Spencer (Tom Cavanagh), has been a lifelong birder. Now he is getting ready to move on and into his new job as Head of Ornithology at a National Park. It’s a career change he`s wanted for years but just on the verge of it happening he learns that a younger and hipper person, Floyd Hawkins (Jamie Spilchuk) will be getting the job with the hope he’ll bring a younger generation to the hobby of bird watching. Ron’s daughter, Samantha (Cassidy Renee), also an avid birdwatcher, thinks her dad should be more in touch with the modern technology of bird watching. None of this sits well with Ron. In fact, he not only thinks he is losing job, but his daughter as well. He decides to get his revenge and teams up with a former student and high school janitor Ben (Mark Rendall), who has reasons of his own to get back at Floyd. The two men try their best to ruin Floyd, with predictably, terrible and hilarious results.

The Birder, movie, poster,

Crew:

Producer:

Gerry Lattman
Jeff Nafalin

Executive Producer:

Michael Baker
Roy Collavino

Co-Executive Producer:

John Cervini

Co-Producer:

Ted Bezaire
Michael Stasko

Associate Producer:

Serge Forte
Christian Lattman

Director:

Ted Bezaire

Screenwriter:

Ted Bezaire
Michael Stasko

Editor:

Ted Bezaire
Dev Singh

Composer:

Dylan Heming
Isabel Noel
Richard Pell

Production Designer:

Taavo Soodor

Cast: Roles:

Tom Cavanagh
Graham Greene
Fred Willard
Mark Rendall
Tommie-Amber Pirie
Allana Harkin
Jamie Spilchuk
Jake Raymond
Scott Cavalheiro
Brent Bondy
Jim Annan
Michael Stasko
Matt John Evans
Jennifer Burma
Christian Lattman
Cassidy Renee
Kevin Briand
Eden Gladstone
Christina Vanier
Marie Jeannette
Rachel Dagenais

Ron Spencer
Manny
Park President
Ben
Laura
Rebecca
Floyd
Jock
Darcy
Detective #1
Gregor
Mike, the park worker
James Dunne
Canopy Person
Police Officer #1
Samantha Spencer
Police Officer #2
Young Ron Spence
Teacher
Photographer
Junior Ornithologist